The act prompted residents of a police oversight panel and youth justice advocates to press for the city guidelines to be amended in hopes of preventing police from taking children into custody under the age of 10 without a juvenile court order.

According to witnesses, Harris’ daughter got in the middle of a dispute between two other girls who had been arguing outside the Boys & Girls Club in Portland’s New Columbia neighborhood on April 26, 2013.

She ended up in a fistfight with one of the other girls outside of the club, a police report states. The fight was broken up by a staff member, who said Harris’ daughter continued to try to strike and kick the other girl.

She was sent home and suspended for a week from the club.

But later that day, the mother of one of the girls called police to report the fight, accusing Harris’ daughter of striking her child in the face and bashing her head against a brick wall. She also told police she wanted an arrest made.

Harris said the officers refused to let her ride to the station with her daughter, but offered to take her back home after they photographed and fingerprinted her.

Harris, who didn’t have a car at the time, said she took the bus to police headquarters. The girl was held in a holding area for more than an hour until her mother arrived.

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